One Down: Spotify Signs Sony To US Deal — This doesn't get them into the States, but it gets them a lot closer: Music service Spotify has finally signed with Sony for U.S. distribution deal. Multiple sources tell me the deal, which has been very close since last fall, is now closed.

Greenblatt Set To Craft NBC Prime-Time Strategy — NBC, the peacock network, should get a full-scale preening at the hands of its new entertainment chief once the Comcast Corp. takeover is complete. — Comcast has said that it's appointing Bob Greenblatt, the programming executive …

Why It's Getting Harder to Find a Good Magazine Newsstand — Problem Partly Began When Convenience Stores Dropped Skin Titles — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Magazines had better hope they get a nice prominent digital newsstand on the tablets flooding the market, because their bricks-and-mortar retail outlets are continuing to disappear.

AOL Is Launching A Flipboard-Killer, “Editions” — AOL is getting ready to launch its own iPad magazine called “Editions.” — The tag line for the magazine is “The Magazine That Reads You.” — We don't know much about it, but it sounds like it will be an app like Flipboard, using your interests to figure out what you like.

How Can We ‘Gamify’ the News Experience? — One of the biggest emerging conversations over the past year in Silicon Valley is around “gamification.” Simply put, this is the idea of applying game mechanics, particularly those found in videogames, to all sorts of non-game experiences.

The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving — Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death — Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he died. — Now it's Fortune's turn to put the same source on the record posthumously.

A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE MEDIA AND THE TUCSON SHOOTING — The aftermath of the January 8 shooting spree in Tucson dominated the American news media last week in a way events rarely do: the tragedy registered as the third-biggest story in a single week since PEJ began tracking coverage in January 2007.

1.4 million fans can't be wrong: NPR's Facebook page — “They swear like sailors, but boy, they're smart.” — That's how NPR strategist Andy Carvin described the 1.4 million fans who comment and share stories through NPR's Facebook page. The page — originally created by an NPR enthusiast from the UK …

The Crisis at the Front of the Book — On a Tuesday night some weeks ago, at a jam-packed book party at Sidecar, the handsome upstairs space next to P.J. Clarke's on East 55th Street, Hugo Lindgren was leaning on the bar next to his deputy. The new editor of The New York Times Magazine …

WHOA: Piers Morgan Beats Fox's Sean Hannity In 9pm Demo — CNN may have a hit on their hands. — Early ratings numbers from Nielsen for Piers Morgan's second CNN show with Howard Stern reveal that (as he promised) he beat competitor Sean Hannity in the ever-coveted 25-54 demo: 551,000- 506,000.

Times Names New Metro Editor — Carolyn Ryan, who helped lead The New York Times to a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the downfall of Eliot Spitzer when he was governor of New York, has been named the paper's metropolitan editor. — Ms. Ryan, 46, has worked at The Times for three and half years.

How NPR's Giffords Mistake Hurt The Families — This story was updated at 4:31 p.m. to make clear that after NPR correspondent Ted Robbins told NPR's newsdesk that Giffords had not died, NPR changed its reporting. — I've since learned what real, excruciating pain NPR triggered …

Blogger aims to chronicle every D.C. homicide victim — On the morning of Nov. 15, Laura Norton Amico found herself penned inside a scrum of journalists who had packed a room at D.C. Superior Court for a glimpse of the lead suspect in one of Washington's highest-profile murder cases: the 2001 killing of federal intern Chandra Levy.

Suzanne Malveaux Tapped to Anchor ‘CNN Newsroom’ — CNN has tapped White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux to anchor the 11 AM to 1 PM block of “CNN Newsroom.” Malveaux will start her new assignment January 31, and will relocate to CNN's headquarters in Atlanta.

The Worldwide Leader in Dong Shots — With his leering coverage of Brett Favre's penis (allegedly!), Rex Ryan's foot fetish, and the surprising sex life of ESPN, A. J. Daulerio has turned Deadspin.com into the raunchiest, funniest, and most controversial sports site on the Web. But at what cost to his soul?

How Adam Got @Adam and Became Cool Online — All Rob Goldman ever wanted was to be himself. In the Silicon Valley start-up obsessed world he inhabits, that means being facebook.com/rob or @Rob on Twitter. — But Mr. Goldman can't get what he wants, even at a website he founded.

Will Tribune Co. Sell its Newspapers Post-Bankruptcy? — What will be the fate of the Tribune Company's flagship newspapers when the giant media company emerges from bankruptcy later this year? — While a judge is expected to approve a reorganization plan in March to clear away …

Sundance 2011: 7 Film Companies To Watch … Sundance is mostly known as a film “festival,” but the event is equally a marketplace—the most important in the world, in fact, for the buying and selling of American independent films. While the indie film business has gone through a cooling period …

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